Culture
Camber gets ready to Rockabilly
The annual Rockabilly Rave takes place in Camber over a five day period this weekend at Pontin's holiday park with thousands of participants celebrating at this 1950s music and lifestyle event.
Enchanted music and gardens
Music from opera and the musicals is the theme of "Some Enchanted Evening - Music for Midsummer", a concert to be held at Playden church on June 20. The same weekend also sees Playden open gardens with both events aiming at raising funds for repairs to Playden church spire
Singing to raise a smile
A singing dentist, who learnt as a student the impact that being born with a cleft lip or palate can have, will be raising money to raise a smile in St Mary's Church this month
Acting Up opens house
"Acting up in Rye"now has the home it always wanted by opening a new space for production preparations
Tempest hits Winchelsea
Outdoor Shakespeare returns to the Ancient Town on June 20, when 'The Tempest' will be performed in the grounds of St Thomas' School
Let’s go to the movies!
This week's featured film showing at Rye Community Centre Film Club on Friday June 5 - The Theory of Everything (pictured) the story of the young Stephen Hawking, not yet the world-renowned physicist he was to become and his relationship with Jane Wilde, a young student he meets and falls in love with at Cambridge in the early 1960s. For this, and other films in Rye, follow the link...
Strumming in the sunshine
The sun shone, the ukuleles were strummed, the kazoos were blown - and it was festival time during the Bank Holiday weekend. Who knows whether the Big Strum set a record, but something like 300 musicians were trying to synchronise their efforts. Lorna Hall reports